Artist:The Mars Volta
Song:Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)
Album:Deloused in the Comatorium
Despite their success at the time, the members of At the Drive In disagreed on musical direction. So they split into two bands in 2001. Guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala wanted to make more experimental music. It looks like they were bored with At the Drive In. At first the band was called DeFacto. After one album, the band was renamed The Mars Volta after a Federico Fellini book. Rodriguez-Lopez and Bixler-Zavala are the only constant members of The Mars Volta. Anyone else is interchangeable and disposable. They started their own label Gold Standard Laboratories and signed a distribution deal with Universal. Rick Rubin produced the 2003 album Deloused in the Comatorium. The album was very successful despite the music not being commercial. It's their most successful album to date. Unfortunately founding member Jeremy Ward died of a heroin overdose while the band was on tour. He was writing a lot of the lyrics. This convinced Rodriguez-Lopez and Bixler-Zavala to stop using drugs. The Mars Volta toured a lot with The Red Hot Chili Peppers so I think that was a lot of their fanbase. The Mars Volta recorded four albums for Universal. They closed their own label and moved to Warner Bros. for the 2008 album The Bedlam in Goliath. After three albums, they split up in 2013. They reunited in 2022 and released an album on the German Clouds Hill label. Fans of Red Hot Chili Peppers should enjoy The Mars Volta. I think they are a little to similar to that band. Here's The Mars Volta performing Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of) on Nissan Live Sets and Yahoo Music 2008.
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